Zephaniah 2

ECB(i) 1
THE CALL OF YAH VEH TO THE GOYIM
Gather yourselves; yes, gather, O goyim not yearned for: 2 ere the birth of the statute; ere the day pass as the chaff; ere the fuming wrath of Yah Veh comes on you; ere the day of the wrath of Yah Veh comes on you. 3 Seek Yah Veh, all you humble of the earth, who do his judgment: seek justness; seek humility: perhaps you are hidden in the day of the wrath of Yah Veh. 4 For Azzah is forsaken and Ashkelon a desolation: they drive out Ashdod at noon and uproot Eqron. 5 Ho to the settlers of the sea boundary - the goyim of the Kerethiym! the word of Yah Veh is against you; O Kenaan, the land of the Peleshethiym: I even destroy you, without settler. 6 And the sea boundary becomes habitations of rest and meadows for tenders and walls for flocks: 7 and the boundary becomes for the survivors of the house of Yah Hudah to graze thereon: in the houses of Ashkelon they crouch in the evening: for Yah Veh their Elohim visits them and restores their captivity. 8 I hear the reproach of Moab and the revilings of the sons of Ammon - whereby they reproach my people, and greaten against their border: 9 so, I live - an oracle of Yah Veh Sabaoth Elohim of Yisra El. Surely Moab is as Sedom and the sons of Ammon as Amorah - the possession of nettles and saltpits - an eternal desolation: the survivors of my people plunder them and the remnant of my goyim inherit them. 10 This is for their pomp, because they reproach and greaten against the people of Yah Veh Sabaoth. 11 Yah Veh is awesome against them: for he emaciates all the elohim of the earth; and every man prostrates to him from his place - all the islands of the goyim. 12 Also you, O Kushiym you, pierced by my sword. 13 And he spreads his hand against the north and destroys Ashshur; and sets Nineveh as a desolation and parches as a wilderness: 14 and droves crouch among her - all the live beings of the goyim: both the pelican and the bittern stay overnight in the upper lintels thereof; their voice sings in the windows; parch is in the thresholds: for he strips naked the cedar work 15 - this - the city of jumping for joy who settles confidently - who says in her heart, I - and there is no one beside me! How she becomes a desolation - a resting place for live beings! every one who passes by her hisses and wags his hand.